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Seagate hard drive controversy persists as scammers discover methods to alter reliability metrics (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm at work so I'm sorry for not being able to provide a source, but there's a website that tracks hard drive failure rates and Seagate is consistently one of the worst brands. So there's some extra facts for you.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Has that always been the case, or did they just start going downhill somewhat recently? I feel like I remember Seagate being the higher end drives back in the day, the next step up from WD. Definitely doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    My understanding is that it's a relatively recent issue, maybe last 5 or so years? WD is currently leading the pack if I remember correctly.

    This is the website im referring to btw. You happened to catch me on my lunch so I could go find it. They have lots of stats, and it's not like it covers 100% of drives but personally I still think it's useful and you can draw some general conclusions from it.

    https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2024/

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    It depends heavily on the drive the data always shows. I have a 12TB Exos drive that I got almost 2 years ago with no issues. that specific drive has a 1.3% failure rate for 2024, more along the lines of WD so gotta use the data to your advantage

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    While it has been quite a while now, I would have a hard time getting over the fact that I have never encountered a WD HDD that did NOT fail. Between prebuilts when I was younger, and friends/family computers I helped with. It was astonishing how pathetic the WD's were.

    Disappointing years ago when I read they acquired Seagate.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've seen this claim twice now in this thread that WD bought Seagate; and I'm not saying you're wrong, bit I legitimately don't see this info anywhere online and I'm pretty sure neither owns the other.

    Mind, I'm on mobile so it's hard to verify things but, I suspect there's some confusion here.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Seagate and Western digital are two seperate companies. You're correct in that neither own or are affiliated with the other.

    There were talks of a merger for years starting back in ~2014, but that fell through.

    I did just find out that Seagate is the parent company to LaCie though. They used to (probably still do) make some decently tough external haard drives.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Huh. I have literally never seen a WD drive fail. I had one that started making some unsettling noises after 10+ years of use but I didn't notice any failure until I ultimately removed it a few years later. A friend even bought a second hand Raptor once, which I thought was a terrible idea, but he had no issues with it for several years until he replaced it with an SSD.

    Of course I know this is probably a very biased experience because I have never encountered WDs in a professional setting where the drives are a lot more solicited and thus more likely to fail.

    Edit : also I only ever bought WD blacks which are higher end IIRC, and so did most of my acquaintances. Can't speak for blue/reds etc

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  • [+] -5 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    There were talks about a merge around 2014, but it ultimately fell through. WD and Seagate are seperate companies.

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